Tio Manuel, My Ex-GF's Uncle and My Former Landlord in Tijuana
To Tio Manuel,
I’m sorry I put a hole through the floor. I needed to be able to piss and shit right there. I couldn’t do the whole outhouse thing. I would get too drunk to walk from my door to the outhouses. It was the little dirt plaza where you would watch futbol and drink beers on Sundays: There were too many little potholes in that patch, and I would always fall and trip. And even if I did make it, I would often slip in through the toilet seat and my ass would touch the shit-water in the tank. And there weren’t showers there, so I couldn’t get clean, you know?
I know you caught a lot of flak for that hole, and I promised to come back and fix it but never did. I shouldn’t have done you like that. You were a good man, and I’m sorry.
J in Pomona